Pig as a large animal model for posterior fossa surgery in oto-neurosurgery: A cadaveric study.

This study proposes a practical model for a new approach to the posterior fossa in common domestic pigs. Several surgical procedures can be simulated in the nonliving pig model, including soft tissue dissection, drilling of temporal bone, dural incision, access to the cerebellopontine angle, exposur...

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Main Authors: Mohamed Elsayed, Renato Torres, Olivier Sterkers, Daniele Bernardeschi, Yann Nguyen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212855